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Amigurumi Apples

Here’s a realistic amigurumi apple: it’s not just a ball with a stalk attached, it’s actually the shape and size of a real apple! Give one to your (or your child’s!) favourite teacher, make a bowlful in red and green as a decorative centrepiece, or add a pair of safety eyes and an embroidered smile to make a sweet-as-apple-pie toy 🙂

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This is a PlanetJune original crochet pattern. Feel free to use items made from this pattern however you wish, but I’d appreciate credit as the pattern designer. Please do not reproduce the pattern anywhere else; instead post a link to www.planetjune.com/apples

Not ready to make it yet? Add it to your Ravelry queue:

Terminology

ch

chain

invdec

invisible decreaseNote: If you prefer, you may use a standard sc2tog decrease in place of each invdec.

sc

single crochet (double crochet for UK/Aus)

sl st

slip stitch

st

stitch

You will need…

E US/3.5mm crochet hook

Small quantity of worsted weight yarn in red or green, and brown or black (for the stalk)

Stitch marker

Yarn needle to weave in ends

Polyester fibrefill stuffing

Notes

Do not join at the end of each round; rounds are worked in continuous spirals.

Use a stitch marker to mark the beginning of each round. Move the marker up each time you start a new round.

Note: Your apple will look more like a lemon at the moment, but don’t worry: that will all change in a moment!

Stalk

With brown or black yarn, ch 7.
Row 1: sl st in 2nd chain from hook and in each remaining chain. (6 st)

Note: I like to work into the back bumps of the chain, but you can work into the chain normally if you prefer.

Cut yarn, leaving a long (approx 12″/30cm) yarn end. Draw end through last loop and pull tight to fasten off.

Finishing

Using a yarn needle and the long yarn end from the apple, close up the remaining hole at the bottom of the apple. Use a finger to push the top of the apple down to form a dimple (don’t worry if it won’t stay in this position).

Pass the yarn from the bottom up through the apple to the magic ring at the top centre, then insert the yarn needle at the top, one stitch away from where it exited the apple, and pass the yarn end back down through the apple to the bottom. Draw the yarn tighter until you like the shape and the top dimple stays in place. Knot the yarn at the bottom of the apple so it stays in this position (the knot will be covered later).

Pass the yarn end through the apple, coming out somewhere along the apple’s side. Draw the yarn tight, and snip the end close to the apple. The yarn end should retract back inside the apple after it is cut.

Using a yarn needle and the long yarn end from the stalk, pass the yarn through the apple from top middle to bottom middle, so the base of the stalk sits in the dimple at the top of the apple.

Make 3 small overlapping stitches at the bottom of the apple, to form an asterisk shape.

Pass the yarn end back up through the apple to the top. Knot the yarn end and the starting tail from the stalk together. Thread both ends onto the yarn needle and pass them through the apple, coming out somewhere along the apple’s side. Draw the yarn tight, and snip the ends close to the apple. The yarn ends should retract back inside the apple after they are cut.

I hope you enjoy this pattern. Please leave me a comment below if you do, and consider leaving me a donation. Thanks!

carolyn haynessaid

thank you for letting me chrochet your apple pattern. I was trying to fine something for my great grand daughter pre-school teacher for Christmas. this will make a great Christmas gift for her. thanks again. I am 68 years old and very thankful there are people like you still out there that love to chrochet like myself.

Jennifersaid

I am 9, and i crocheting is my hobby, i saw your pattern and sat down immediately to make it, i love it so much and now i just finished the 7th one!
i do have a question, how to you do a invisible decease? please do answer, i have to know!

Pamelasaid

Thank you so much for an easy but beautiful apple.
I made these for my children’s teachers. The teachers loved them.
I stuffed mine with popcorn seeds instead of stuffing and it worked great.
I just want to say thank you again. I love to crochet and these were perfect.
Pam

Karensaid

Hi June. Love the pattern. It is so cute and is so easy. Can you give me any tips for passing the yarn needle through the apple. The needle would just not go through! Do I have it stuffed too tightly, although it does not seem to be. Is it the type of stuffing…..it’s a craft poly-fill, 100% polyester fiber. Thank you!

Karen, it sounds like the problem is in the type of stuffing you’re using – there are many different types, and, confusingly, they’re almost all 100% polyester, so it’s difficult to know what you’re getting. (It also makes it difficult for me to describe the differences – I have a blog post planned about stuffing types, but I’m still not sure how to write it!) In future, you might like to look for a different type of stuffing, and look for words like ‘premium’, ‘high loft’ or ‘supreme’ – they are usually a clue to the better quality, springier, bouncier, smoother stuffing.

With the stuffing you have, all I can suggest is:

Buy a needle with a sharper tip that can force its way through your stuffing (but still has a large enough eye to fit your yarn into). I wouldn’t use a sharp-tipped needle for sewing pieces together, as they split the yarn too easily, but they do have their uses!

Use a finer yarn or thread with a smaller needle – pass it through the apple several times, going through a different stitch at the ends of the apple each time, to spread the load so the thread doesn’t slice through your yarn.

Karensaid

Anouksaid

Thank you for this amazig pattern. I am making a fruit basket for a friend, and I am sure your apple wil look great i it. I inclued you a link to my FB pictures, soon your apple will also be displayed. Luv you ^_^

arabianjasminesaid

Alexandriasaid

Hello June. This is a beautiful pattern. Thank you for making it free! One of my favorite teacher’s birthdays is on Tuesday. I have decided to make her one of these and give it to her as an “apple for the teacher” gift. Only this apple will last longer than a real apple, as a real apple would rot. I am sure she will love it.
Thank you, Alexandria

jonafersaid

Megansaid

my little sister has been begging mom for a play food set, so i guess i’m going to make one of these apples, a lemon, an orange, and a pumpkin for her. plus, your website is the best one i’ve seen in a long time.

You write patterns so well! Even as I have some experience with amigurumi, most of the details you included are usually left out and assumed that the crafter already knows. (Like how to attach the stem and how to make sure the yarn ends disappear.) That’s awesome. 🙂

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